JUNE 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1783

highway, or the sides thereof, such ashes or refuse shall not be left in a heap, but shall be spread out on such road or highway, or the sides thereof, in such manner that such road or highway, or the sides thereof, shall be kept even and the level thereof maintained: Provided that no such refuse shall be discharged upon any bridge or culvert, or upon any wooden structure, or upon any metalled road within one chain of any bridge or culvert.

8. Whenever any person who shall be riding on horseback, or driving a horse or horses in a vehicle, upon or along a public road or highway shall be approaching an engine, and shall indicate his desire by holding up his hand that the driver of such engine shall stop such engine, such driver shall thereupon immediately stop the same, and also shall, upon being requested by such person so riding or driving as aforesaid so to do, give to such person such assistance as may be necessary for the purpose of enabling him to pass with his horse or horses in safety by such engine.

9. While any engine shall be travelling upon or is being taken over a bridge or along metalled parts of roads, no studs or other pieces, or rings of iron or other metal, shall be attached to or raised upon the level of the faces of the tires of the wheels of any such engine for the purpose or which shall have the effect of sinking into, gripping, or breaking the surface of any bridge or roadway.

10. The person in charge of an engine shall give immediate notice to the Clerk of the Wakanui Road District of any damage or injury done by the engine, or any wagon attached thereto, to any roadway, or to any fence, bridge, culvert, watercourse, drain, side ditch, or other thing appertaining to any such roadway, and the damage shall be forthwith repaired and made good by or at the expense of the owner or person having charge of such engine.

11. Every owner of a traction-engine shall cause his name and address to be painted or marked on such engine on the off-side thereof, in letters of not less than two inches in height and of proportionate breadth, and of such a colour or in such a manner as to be clearly distinguishable from the colour or nature of the ground whereon such letters are painted or marked, and when such owner possesses more than one engine a separate number distinguishing each such engine shall in like manner be painted immediately below such name and address.

12. Nothing herein contained shall be held to relieve owners or employers of traction-engines from liability in respect of injury done and damage sustained by the traction of excessive weight or extraordinary traffic over or along any bridge or roadway.

13. Every person employed in driving or conducting an engine shall, while so employed, have in his possession a printed copy of these by-laws, and also the certificate of registration as mentioned in Schedule C of these by-laws, and he shall exhibit the same on demand to any person in charge of a horse or vehicle drawn by a horse, or to any member or official or employee of the Road Board, or to any constable. It shall be the duty of the owner to furnish every person employed in driving and conducting the engine with such copy by-law, and the person in charge with the certificate.

Schedule A.

License Fee to be paid annually by the Owner of any Traction-engine as mentioned or defined by Section 1 of this By-law.

£ s. d.
(a.) For a traction-engine if and while used only in transporting threshing-machine, chaff-cutting, or saw-bench plant belonging to the person owning or using the said engine .. .. .. 1 0 0
(b.) For every other traction-engine .. .. 3 0 0

Schedule B.

Application for a License for a Traction-engine.

I, , residing at , do hereby request that a license may be granted for the following traction-engine, of which I am the owner [or user], to be used on roads within the district—that is to say, the Wakanui Road District:—

Description: .
Horse-power: .
Number: .
Maker: .
[If the applicant is not the owner] Name and place of abode of owner: .

And I undertake to comply with all by-laws of the Road Board which may be in force during the continuation of such license.

Dated this day of , 190 .

License authorised by the Wakanui Road Board, this day of , 190 .
, Chairman.

Schedule C.

Wakanui Road Board, to wit. No. .

Whereas has made application for a license for the following traction-engine to be used on roads within the Wakanui Road District, pursuant to the provisions of By-law No. , that is to say,—

Description: .
Horse-power: .
Number: .
Maker: .
Weight unloaded: .
Name and place of abode of owner: .

And whereas the issue of such license has been duly authorised by the Road Board of the said district.

Now, therefore, I, the Clerk of the said Road Board, by the authority and on behalf of the said Road Board, do hereby license the said traction-engine to be used on roads within the Wakanui Road District for the period of one year from the date hereof, and no longer, subject to the said by-laws and to such other by-laws as may from time to time be in force within the said road district.

Given under my hand, at the Road Board Office, Ashburton, this day of , 190 .

14. Any person committing a breach or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this by-law shall for each and every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of £5.

15. These by-laws shall come into force within the Wakanui Road District as soon as they shall have been gazetted, and the by-laws published in the New Zealand Gazette of 14th September, 1905, are hereby repealed.

[Seal.]

Sealed with the common seal of the Inhabitants of the Wakanui Road District, this 9th day of June, 1906, in the presence of the members of the Wakanui Road Board, and by their direction.

JAMES ALLEN,
Acting-Chairman.

I, John Kilgour, Clerk to the Wakanui Road Board, hereby certify that the foregoing by-law is a true copy of a special order made by the Wakanui Road Board on the 9th day of June, 1906, and that such special order was made in all respects in terms of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

Dated this 9th day of June, 1906.

JOHN KILGOUR,
Clerk of the Wakanui Road Board.

Special Order made by the Mount Roskill Road Board, County of Eden.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1906.

THE following special order, made by the Mount Roskill Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

MOUNT ROSKILL ROAD BOARD.

By-laws of the Body Corporate under the Name of “The Inhabitants of the Mount Roskill Road District” made and enacted by the Mount Roskill Road Board.

Special Order of the Mount Roskill Road Board.

In pursuance of the powers vested in it by “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and its amendments, “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and its amendments, “The Public Health Act, 1900,” and its amendments, and by all or any other statutes it hereunto enabling, the Road Board of the Mount Roskill Road District doth hereby ordain as follows:—

INTERPRETATION.

In the interpretation of these by-laws, unless inconsistent with the context,—

“Board” means the Mount Roskill Road Board;
“District” means the Mount Roskill Road District;
“District Health Officer” means the District Health Officer of the public health district within which the district is situate;
“Footpath” means any portion of a road laid off or formed for the use of pedestrians solely;
“House” includes hotel, boardinghouse, office, public hall, school, and any building in which human beings dwell or are intended to dwell, and also includes a shop with dwelling-rooms attached;